Your friend is a jerk and doesn’t love his kids?
What else is supposed to be my response?
If he said “I don’t want to support you after you’re married, so you better pick a profession and wife that will let you support yourself”–that would be fine. But he only won’t support him because learning is a lifestyle he doesn’t agree with–implying that he would support him if he was doing something else that doesn’t earn money. So he’s a jerk and doesn’t love his kids.
I mean, I knew there were jerks who don’t love their kids. I didn’t know you were friends with any, but I’m also probably friends with some. I’m not sure how it proves anything about what we should assume normal parents will do.